WOW, I just realized that the Ocala event hasn't been fully wrapped up yet! I guess there is always next week. In my defense, this was created up there during our setup. Hope you like.....

I just love these solo tree scenes. Something very simple, stable, and calming in a world of chaos, instability, and confusion. Ok, that was a bit too deep I guess.

6:30 AM load in, so, I'm outta here!

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Looking up between a couple of hills on a grey and windy day in the Peak District in September.

solo tree

Fititng for the mood of the day, a weeping willow adorns one part of Waterlow Park.

I got this shot along the beautiful Highway 250 on the Big Island.

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Solo tree.. beautiful day before the storm came.

An intricate pattern of branches from this tree (or are these four different trees?) just outside Lauderdale House, inside Waterlow Park.

Blomidon wander

Firery sky

As mentioned before, our bus from Anchorage to Denali made a stop at the McKinley Princess Lodge. Thanks to Mom's weird gift with weather and mountain views, we had some spectacular views of Denali and the Alaska range from their deck. This is one, with a few more to follow right on its heels.

Here I was playing with a trial version of LightZone. I wanted to do a "zone" sort of thing, and was having trouble getting the effect I wanted with Photoshop (which is my default tool). There are things about LightZone that I quite like (and it worked well here), but there are other things about it that are pretty frustrating. I don't know how in the heck, for example, you'd select just that solo tree if you needed to.

Ah, well, the world is never completely simple, is it?

Surviving change

Tree of Richter Street during its eighth growing season.

In spring of 2007, Silva Cells were installed along Richter Street between Bernard and Laurence Street to support 8 new street trees.

thorndale, texas.

It doesn't look like much, but the road to the Observatory is a pretty tough climb.

Greenwich Park is, as expected, home to all sorts of animals. I even spotted wild parrots!

I’ve come to realize that the solo tree in a field or on a hill is one of my tropes. Classic Gary right here. And I’m okay with that. (6-23-19)

The recent trip to Yosemite during March was incredible. The light was one thing that I paid attention to the most probably on my mind every minute. Knowing that we can not be at multiple locations during the magic hour a lot of choices are made to optimize our photo adventures. This image demonstates how small the window is for such an event. The illumination on the solo tree caught my eye. There's never enough time to get it all so there's going to be more trips in the future to pick up where I left off. IMG_1595

I saw this tree While I was walking by and took a quick single RAW image.

Later I converted it to 3 images -2,0,+2 and made this HDR.

I located this scene just 500 meters from where I live. I've passed this tree many time without noticing it. But as I'm studying b/w photography I'm training my eyes (and brain) to see in b/w. And as a result of this new ability, this scene presented it self visually.

With my Nikon D300 and a Sigma APO 70-200mm f/2.8 lens I composed this photo in camera so cropping in post processing was not needed. With the Dodge tool I darkened the foliage behind the tree. A 25% vignet was added.

Exposure: 1/80 sec at f/6.3, O EV, ISO 200

Focal length: 90mm / 135 mm

First attempt at solo tree

Been looking for a solo tree shot. You don't wanna climb this bad boy. That's not all poison ivy on the trunk but the majority is.......

Machu Picchu '07

Descanso Gardens

Parking lot tree

Stark tree on a Winter's day on the campus of the University of Maryland.

taylor, texas.